#2,966

Superficial, like the sociological explanation of any behavior.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,882

There is no sociological generalization that does not appear inadequate to the man to whom it applies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,732

Those who replace the “letter” of Christianity with its “spirit” generally turn it into a load of socio-economic nonsense.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 439

#2,725

The sociologist never knows, when manipulating his statistics, where the relative figure matters and where the absolute figure matters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,601

The history of literary genres admits of sociological explanations.
The history of works of literature does not.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 420

#2,475

The descriptive use of social anecdotes has more characterological exactitude than statistical percentages.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

#2,243

Revolutions are more a subject for sociology than for history.
Manifestations of those depths of human nature that nothing educates, nothing civilizes, nothing ennobles, revolutions despoil man of his history and return him to bestial behaviors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 364

#2,039

The conventional is not necessarily an aesthetic defect, since it is merely a sociological trait.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331

#2,018

The alleged “laws of sociology” are more or less extensively documented historical facts.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,516

Sociology protects the sociologist from all contact with reality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 254

#1,455

Progressive Christians painstakingly search through sociology manuals for material with which to fill lacunae in the Gospel.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 246

#1,375

Legal freedom of expression has grown alongside the sociological enslavement of thought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 235

#1,333

Sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, are experts in generalities.
When confrontedy by the bull’s horns of a concrete case, they all look like Anglo-Saxon bullfighters.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 229

#1,304

Those who wield a sociological vocabulary imagine they have understood because they have classified.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 225

#1,075

Let us accept sociology as long as it classifies and does not seek to explain.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 191

#1,062

For a society that lives among statistics, to suspect that each unit is a unique person with his own destiny turns out to be troubling and alarming.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 189

#922

Physiology on one side, sociology on another, signed the partition of psychology.
Personal life has been abolished, like the Polish Sejm.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 167

#895

The historian deals with history like an artist painting a portrait.
The sociologist like a policeman adding to his file.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 163

#779

The most interesting chapter of sociology is yet to be written: that which studies the bodily repercussions of social events.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 140

#761

To interpret certain men, sociology is enough.
Psychology is overkill.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 137